Community Outreach

At we think doing the right thing is good for people, good for the planet, and good for business. We believe so strongly in community service that we co-create whole new programs with non-profits like Friends of the Children and The Boys & Girls Club. Additionally, eROI employees choose a non-profit each year to participate as an entire company and help for a day.

Friends of the Children

In the past 2 years, collaborated with Friends of the Children community mentoring program by spearheading the creation of the Friends of the Children Art Fair, a charitable art auction and celebration of the program's educational accomplishments in the community. By reaching out to Portland-area artists (offering them the option of donating 70% or 100% of the proceeds from their artwork), the children and adult mentors involved in this grassroots program, and pulling together entertainment for the event including musician Michael Meanwhile and emcee Shauna Parsons (of Fox 12 News anchor fame), eROI has created an annual event that puts kids' educational and community support needs foremost in the minds of the Portland art community. additionally supports Friends of the Children by providing online event registration capabilities for the event's website (http://www.friendsartfair.com/), promoting the event through use of and helping garner print and broadcast media attention for the event. To date, these efforts have combined to reach the desired target audience of 25-45 year olds with over 2.5 million media impressions and netted $55,000 over the past 2 years.

Zenger Farm

What do you get when you put 34 urban web addicts on a farm? Dirty fingernails, faded tattoos, painful sunburns, and fruitful fields of joy. employees stormed Zenger Farm, an urban agricultural park, to plant and clean up the fields. We wanted to engage with the community in a physical, tangible way and we had a blast in the process! Zenger’s mission is to promote sustainable food systems, environmental stewardship and local economic development through a working urban farm. It is six acres of farmland, bordered by a 10-acre wetland in Portland. It is also a classroom, an ecosystem, a community anchor, and a farm operation.

Communication Breakdown Workshops - Concept Phase (in partnership with The Boys & Girls Club)

Problem: The acceleration of technology innovation like Web 2.0 and other is having an adverse effect on family dynamics. Kids and their parents have always struggled to communicate, but these days, they don’t even speak the same language - (IM’ing, hanging out on social networking sites for kids 8-13 years old like Microsoft LiveSpaces, Yahoo! Kids, Disney, and Millsberry). Parents want a way to communicate, connect, and bond with their kids, but still protect them from the predators that they fear in “online communities.”

Solution: Web 2.0 companies like are partnering with non-profit Boys and Girls Club to address this problem. The solution is the facilitation of Communication Breakdown Workshops - parents/mentors being taught by their 8-13 year old kids how to create a profile on safe and In the spirit of empowerment and transparency, kids will teach their parents/mentors at on-site facilities (Boys and Girls Club locations) in the Greater Portland area.

Facilitators: (Portland) Staff at eROI. Guest speakers from social networking and Web 2.0 company staff via Web Conferencing.

Curriculum: Two Workshops, March 20 & 27, 5:30-7:30pm
More information at eroi.com/breakdown

“The contribution from your company chartered new territory for CS Park with the event registration site you built. Your contribution...and the contributions of others helped us raise $40,000 for this non-profit. We had incredible reporting, amazing account/web people and great results from your efforts.”
- Cedar Sinai Park Hospital

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